Arizona St. Joseph - Haunting Voices Lyrics

Haunting Voices
Slice me open and watch me bleed
It's for your own good they are telling me
You were numb before but now you're freed
Ripping and prying, you're hurting me
I listen to the voices that are haunting me
They're making me my problem ever endlessly
Cutting at my corners, rearranging me
I'll always be a slave to your memory

Reasons I am running free
Are the voices haunting me
Earth beneath my shaking feet
Walking on my path, trusting in me
Amidst the unknown, I kneel to pray
Asking for guidance to survive this day
Through the chaos I find my way
Loving the pieces that were rearranged

Reflection of perfection, it couldn't last
I fell from grace, things changed so fast
You were almost there, now shattered glass
Bleeding from the edges of of my scattered past
I listen to the voices, a haunting plea
Forcing my hand, of who to be
Head under water, to wash me clean
Submerged in the emotions of what I've seen

Reasons I am swimming deep
Are the voices haunting me
Guided by emotions of who to be
Praying that these waters can wash me clean
Lost in the currents, take me to the sea
Transforming my faults Into strength for me
Courage to face what used to haunt me
Are the reason i am swimming free

Flood the gates and wash me out
You say you don't trust me, You're filled with doubt
You didn't try before, But now you pray
Begging and pleading your drowning me
Searching for air, i must take flight
To be reborn after this dark night
Head above water, i hear the plea
Of the haunting voices that were changing me

The reason I am flying free
Are the voices changing me
Wind beneath my beating winds
Flying with spirit soaring with me
Adrift in the ether I spread my winds
Into the sky where freedom rings
I see the arrows aim at me
Prepared to take me down and watch me bleed

Pierce my wings and shoot me down
A hopeful game, I've been found out
I was gone before, but now I'm back
I don't want to fight, this isn't an attack
I listen to the voices tell me to leave
You're just the same, too intense for me
Collecting all my feathers, you're stalking me
I'll always be a slave to what you see

The reasons I am falling steep
Are the arrows shot at me
Judgements cast now strip me clean
Fully liberated of who I've been
As I fall I see the light
Fire burning in the night
Wings once beating drift like a kit
To see what this fire will ignite

Start the fire, watch me burn
You say this is the only way I will learn
You were cold before, now feel the heat
Scorching inferno you're killing me
Cut at my edges, they rearranged me
And now in the fire they turn to steam
Grateful for the voices that have changed me
I'll always remember what you taught to me

The reasons I am burning free
Are the voices that changed me
Fully enveloped in the heat
Burning with spirit a vivid dream
I listen to the voices that have taught me
How to transform my memories
Cut at my corners, we rearranged me
And these are the reasons I am running free